Misty Lackie
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

I wouldn’t call any of these worthless. You learned a lot and you also put things in production. That is way further than most get.

I have built multiple side projects that have made anywhere between $3k to $15k+ per month each. Once one reaches that higher end, I move it into a core business unit and really start to invest in it. I don’t build side projects based on my own needs and desires though. I build based on if there is demand or a market.

I know that is counter advice to what you hear a lot out there, but if your goal is to make money from your projects then provide services and products you know people will pay for, not necessarily what you think is cool.

That means you need to learn how to do market research before you even start to build. See what others are doing and build a better version, or a version that hits a subset of a bigger market/competitor. Build a MVP or even landing page to capture sign ups to gauge if your target customer will pay money for it before you start to build it out fully.

You say you do not like marketing but you gotta get over that. Believe it or not, marketing really does have a lot of technical areas to it, and is more challenging than writing code imo. Learn about advertising, how to capture data from advertising, how to leverage that data to make decisions, how to leverage that data to automate things, how to build funnels, drip campaigns, etc. Get really good at it or at least partner with someone who is really good at it.

Keep building! :)

    Misty Lackie

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    SaaS Creator & Business Owner at https://www.gosmartsolutions.com/